Crossword clues for mockeries
mockeries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mockery \Mock"er*y\, n.; pl. Mockeries. [F. moquerie.]
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The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
--Shak.Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God.
--Law.And bear about the mockery of woe.
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Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.
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Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery.
--2 Macc. viii. 17.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mockery English)
Usage examples of "mockeries".
Such of a truth are base persons, and they are unfaithful to Thee, loving these transitory mockeries of temporal things, and vile gain, which begrimes the hand that lays hold on it.
Apuleius need not attempt to justify the fictions of the poets, and the mockeries of the stage.
For who will suffer it to be said that the demons have made known the calumnious fictions of the poets concerning the immortal gods, and also the disgraceful mockeries of the theatres, and their own most ardent lust after, and most sweet pleasure in these things, whilst they have concealed from them that Plato, with the gravity of a philosopher, gave it as his opinion that all these things ought to be removed from a well-regulated republic.
But when Hermes predicts these things, he speaks as one who is a friend to these same mockeries of demons, and does not clearly express the name of Christ.
His limbs were twisted mockeries of anything human, the flesh burned from them in places from a searing heat.